Ahh!" I screamed when somebody suddenly pulled me into the alley out of the blue as he covered my lips with his enormous hand.
"How did I get into this situation." I thought as I try to get out of his grip. I raised my head in annoyance as I looked at his appearance.
Contrary to what I expected, I didn't see a perverted old man, but a young man that had a chiselled jawline just like Felix and Lucius's. His crimson red eyes that looked like they would pierce anyone in sight was peering out the alley with a face that looked anxious, yet firm. He took his hands off me as his blonde hair which was covered in the shadows of the alley fluttered in the soft breeze of the night.
Felix and the order of knights that poured after the first order of mysterious knights that didn't work for the duchy skipped the alley.
I was leaning at the wall of the alley as I exhaled in exhaustion.
He glanced at me with an expression filled with mysteriousness, I felt a tint of disgust from his facial expression as he left the alley without any statement after noticing that the coast was clear.
"H-Hey!" I yelled as I tried to get an explanation from him, but then when I ran out of the alley he was already nowhere to be seen as if he had vanished into thin air.
Instead of seeing people enjoying the streets food and beverages engulfed in the bright lights, I was greeted by a garden of roses that looked like the one in the duchy. It looked like it has been abandoned for a long time, I couldn't get a glimpse of the joyous part of the capital.
"Have I really gone that far...?" I mumbled as I entered the withered garden.
"This... feeling is so nostalgic..." I stared at the terrace of the garden with a sad smile.
"HEY!" Felix shouted from the entrance of the abandoned garden as I stood quietly between the entrance and the terrace ignoring his words.
He stomped towards me with an annoyed and worried expression as I stood there in silence.
"Hey! did you hear me?!" He said as he grabbed my hand and pulled me.
"Are you out of!..."
"...your mind?" He said as he looked at me weirdly
As my hair fluttered in the air after he pulled me to face him. He saw my eyes filled with dreariness as I smiled.
"Are you gonna attempt to flee again?!" He said as if I had tried to leave the duchy multiple times in the past.
"Do... you still remember that day...?" I said with a smile as he looked at me with a puzzled and clueless face.
"The day... you framed me." I said to him as he froze in place.
"I don't know what you're talking about..." he replied as he avoided eye contact.
"Stop trying to blame me for your actions." He countered as he gazed back at me.
"Why did the moon have to be full today..." He said inaudibly.
"I dont even know how a person like you tricked father into adopting you." he said to me without hesitation.
"You finally showed your true colors." I replied with a smirk
"Remember this three things before I disappear." I said to him as I stepped a little closer.
"Firstly, your father abducted me..." I declared with a grimace after taking one step.
"Secondly, your father stole something as valuable as my life from me..." I declared while adding tints of sorrow in my grimace as I take my second step.
"Lastly... I would rather live in the streets rather than your duchy because you..."
"...Make me feel worse than a beggar living on the streets." I stared at him with absolute despair as the fireworks exploded in the night sky.
We stared at each other in absolute silence as the fireworks continued to explode in the air along with the cold breeze of the night in this garden of withered roses as I walked past him.
"I... Didn't know..." He said as he grabbed my hand once again.
"Of course, you wouldn't know. You never even cared one bit about how I felt..."
"Because what you know is that I somehow tricked your father into bringing me into the duchy." I said with a smirk along with my dreary eyes as I brushed his hand off me.
And just like that, another year has officially made its entrance into our lives...